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Prebiotic Chemistry: Geochemical Context and Reaction Screening
AbstractThe origin of life on Earth is widely believed to have required the reactions of organic compounds and their self- and/or environmental organization. What those compounds were remains open to debate, as do the environment in and process or processes by which they became organized. Prebiotic chemistry is the systematic organized study of these phenomena. It is difficult to study poorly defined phenomena, and research has focused on producing compounds and structures familiar to contemporary biochemistry, which may or may not have been crucial for the origin of life. Given our ignorance, it may be instructive to explore the extreme regions of known and future investigations of prebiotic chemistry, where reactions fail, that will relate them to or exclude them from plausible environments where they could occur. Come critical parameters which most deserve investigation are discussed.
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Cleaves, H.J., II. Prebiotic Chemistry: Geochemical Context and Reaction Screening. Life 2013, 3, 331-345.View more citation formats
Cleaves HJ, II. Prebiotic Chemistry: Geochemical Context and Reaction Screening. Life. 2013; 3(2):331-345.Chicago/Turabian Style
Cleaves, Henderson J., II. 2013. "Prebiotic Chemistry: Geochemical Context and Reaction Screening." Life 3, no. 2: 331-345.
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